PICKFORD MARY: (1892-1979) Canadian-born American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress ...

PICKFORD MARY: (1892-1979) Canadian-born American actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1928/29 for her role as Norma Besant in Coquette. Vintage signed 6.5 x 8.5 photograph of Pickford standing in a three-quarter length pose in costume as Katherina from the American comedy film The Taming of the Shrew (1929), being the first sound film adaptation of William Shakespeare´s play of the same title. Signed by the actress in purple fountain pen ink with her name alone to a lighter area of the image. Some very light, extremely minor silvering to the lower left corner, VG